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Due to the wide availability and low cost of high speed networking, commodity clusters have become the de facto standard for building high performance parallel computing systems. This talk will introduce the leading technology for high speed interconnects called Infiniband and compare its deployment and performance to Ethernet. In addition, some emerging interconnect technologies and trends in cluster networking will be discussed.

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What is iWarp?
• RDMA consortium (RDMAC) standardized some
protocols with are now part of the IETF Remote
Data Direct Placement (RDDP) working group
• http://www.rdmaconsortium.org/home
• Also defined SRP, iSER in addition to verbs
• iWARP supported in OFED
• Most specification work complete in ~2003
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RDMA over Ethernet?
The name ‘RoCEE’ (RDMA over Converged Enhanced Ethernet),
is a working name.
You might hear me say RoXE, RoE, RDMAoE, IBXoE, IBXE or
any other of a host of equally obscure names.
Tom Talpey, Microsoft Corporation
Paul Grun, System Fabric Works
August 2009
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